Poll: Do You Think The End Is Upon Us? (12/21/12)
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Actually, since the sun's predicted to die in about 5 billion years (about ~5 x 10^9 years), and it'll probably become a red giant in the process of dying (thus absorbing the Earth into its mass), your estimate is wildly optimistic. Better start stocking up.Heronblade said:
All I'm saying is that if the Mayans for some weird reason managed to predict the future as these nutjobs claim, they've got a long time to wait before the doomsday banners get pulled out.Shadowsetzer said:Actually, since the sun's predicted to die in about 5 billion years (about ~5 x 10^9 years), and it'll probably become a red giant in the process of dying (thus absorbing the Earth into its mass), your estimate is wildly optimistic. Better start stocking up.Heronblade said:
Heh, even discounting the inevitable death of sol, not to mention heat death of the known universe, humanity itself won't exist as much as a single million years from now, much less that kind of time, at least, not as the same species.
it sure would be nice, but i won't get my hopes up. that won't stop me from having fun with it all the way to the end though, since the next day there won't be anymore doomsdays for awhile and things will get boring again. :/
I have tickets for Les Miserables on the 21st so I really hope not. Though I am actually worried about the date, there are a lot of stupid people in the world who may over react.
Also my Facebook feed is gonna be the most annoying piece of shit that entire day.
Also my Facebook feed is gonna be the most annoying piece of shit that entire day.
Allow me to settle this once and for all. It's a provable scientific fact that the world ended when scentists turned on the LHC a few years back and that existence as we know it has since then been the fictional dream of the scientists locked in a perpetual state of being sucked into oblivion. If you can't be bothered to go and look up readily available facts in the library then feel free to continue believing whatever fictional date for the end of the world you like.
The way I look at is, well our calender comes to an end December 31st EVERY YEAR. You know what we do when that happens? Do we all get down on our knees and repent for our sins? No! WE BUY A NEW CALENDER!! Just because the bloody calender is coming to an end doesn't mean shit, and how the hell did they work out that it ends on that specific day? I don't imagine the Mayan calender translates to ours well enough to be that precise.
It will totally end. Sometime. Eventually. You know, when the sun starts to expand and consumes it. But...we won't be here anymore, since we'll all have long since died of old age or other causes millenia before then. So...I wouldn't worry too much about it. Hopefully humanity will have spread far beyond our own solar system before Earth bites it, and hasn't managed to get itself killed off some other way. But...let's not lay odds on both of those.
The Mayans were excellent astronomers, and based their units of time off of well known celestial events, as a result our translation is quite accurate. In addition, most of the long term dating also involved a simple count of the days. They used a base 20 math system rather than base 10, but it is still just numbers.canadamus_prime said:
Although nothing actually provides any truth to the world ending this year, not providing proof has never stopped people from believing anything before so.... WE ALL'S GUNNA DIE!
